LETTER: Take Destin back

Published: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 at 05:42 PM.

There are those of you who remember when people in Destin saw a need to incorporate, to make this town a city, and stop the county’s intrusion into our lives. Their main campaign promise was that we would control the growth of our town.
A fool believes what he wants to hear! Thus, Destin began its rampant destruction of the fishing village it once was.
Where are we now? We have had expansion after expansion, more construction than anyone who voted for incorporation back then wanted. And we find ourselves saddled with a Norriego Point destroyed by people who obviously had no concept of ninth-grade-level earth science.
When we cross the Destin Bridge, we need to look at the rocks that were allowed to be placed where they are. At the time of their placement, there was sand all along that front. The eddies created by those rocks destroyed the sand edifice.
We may have a City Council and a mayor, but we have government by developers and those with big bucks.
I always thought, because I was raised in an earlier time, that government was for the common man and woman, not just the rich and famous. As I contemplate Destin’s future, all we can look forward to seeing is more government and more traffic.
Anyone for unincorporation?

— RON HARDY
Destin

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There are those of you who remember when people in Destin saw a need to incorporate, to make this town a city, and stop the county’s intrusion into our lives. Their main campaign promise was that we would control the growth of our town.
A fool believes what he wants to hear! Thus, Destin began its rampant destruction of the fishing village it once was.
Where are we now? We have had expansion after expansion, more construction than anyone who voted for incorporation back then wanted. And we find ourselves saddled with a Norriego Point destroyed by people who obviously had no concept of ninth-grade-level earth science.
When we cross the Destin Bridge, we need to look at the rocks that were allowed to be placed where they are. At the time of their placement, there was sand all along that front. The eddies created by those rocks destroyed the sand edifice.
We may have a City Council and a mayor, but we have government by developers and those with big bucks.
I always thought, because I was raised in an earlier time, that government was for the common man and woman, not just the rich and famous. As I contemplate Destin’s future, all we can look forward to seeing is more government and more traffic.
Anyone for unincorporation?